Episode 1 Abby and Brittany: Joined for Life

-My name is Abby Hensel.

-And I'm Brittany Hensel.

We are 22 years old.

People have been curious about us since we were born.

For obvious reasons.

BOTH: We are identical twins who are conjoined.

But our parents never let us use that as an excuse.

While life as a conjoined twin sometimes has its challenges...

We were raised to believe that we could do anything we wanted.

BOTH: So we do.

We like to think the most amazing thing about us is...

BOTH: We're just like everyone else.

We really are normal, but I'm definitely more normal than Brit.

Whatever.

Anyways...

BOTH: This is the story of our normal, regular life.

BOTH: Well, our normal conjoined life.

This is our life.

-I'm Abby.

-I'm Brittany.

We are 22 and we are at Bethel College.

Bethel College for four years.

Basically we've done it for four years.

We are definitely a lot more independent

not living under Mum and Dad's roof.

BOTH: This is our house.

We have seven roommates.

-It's always crazy.

-Always busy, but it's fun.

BOTH: These are our roommates. This is Katy,

Ali,

and Kayla.

We met Katy and Kayla in sophomore year.

Katie was in one of our math classes.

Kayla helped us with math.

We're called the "shout house"

because we're all very loud people

and you're never going to have a quiet time in here.

We are so loud.

We're loud in general.

But we're quiet compared to the rest of our roommates.

You can hear Kayla laugh from my room upstairs.

-Everybody's laughing.

-Screaming, yelling, loud.

We're loud.

-How's this film going?

-BOTH: Oh, it's good. This is Josiah.

'Josiah has been such a good friend over the four years we met him.'

Josiah and us met the first year in freshman year.

And he put hats on our heads.

And intimidated us.

We were scared of him, but now he's the best.

Now you're not intimidated?

BOTH: No, I'm not intimidated.

I'm a big softy now?

BOTH: He's a big teddy bear.

He's always there to bounce ideas off,

or give advice to.

No, no, no.

Someone to hold us accountable and make decisions.

He's a really good friend.

My name is Abby Hensel.

And Brittany Hensel and don't you dare say a thing about it.

We've been on a couple of shows.

We did a documentary when we were 11.

This is my house.

Here's the kitchen, our refrigerator,

our island, and our stove.

I'm Koty Hensel.

I'm Abby and Brittany's brother.

My favourite food is pizza.

Cheese pizza.

I wouldn't go for it either.

They definitely will disagree with each other.

They'll get into a debate

and they'll just talk it over

and will sometimes get into a heated argument,

but they'll work it out

and they'll figure it out.

What do you have arguments about sometimes?

If we want to play dolls or not.

Or what we want to play on the computer or go on the Internet.

Or if we want to, um... What we want to wear.

This is my sister Morgan. Morgan, would you like to say anything?

That's all.

Some things I like to do with my sisters

is play school.

Play in the room with them and dress the dolls and...

Um...

-Do you like to do your nails with them?

-I do my nails with them.

-Would anybody like to see me do a handstand?

-Yes.

I want the world to see Abby and Brittany is being two individuals

that have the same hopes and fears

as any other child their age.

We are about to graduate.

We don't know where we're going to get a job, where we're going to live.

So, we're trying to find as much time with our friends as we can.

Typically we like to go out and...

..get appetisers.

And get something to eat.

Everybody in?

We often go out just a big group of us.

Our roommates and a couple of other girls.

-It's so fun.

-Absolutely.

We're always laughing about something and doing something stupid.

Crazy.

-Who'd like to go first? Oh, pick me, right here.

-She's ready!

ALL SHOUT TOGETHER

We will have the chicken quesadilla.

Sounds good.

INAUDIBLE

Do you like chicken rings?

BOTH: Sure I like chicken rings.

'As friends, all of us are very protective of them.'

When you hear people talking about them or are people making comments about them,

we totally forget about it.

We don't see them as anything different than we are.

-Oh, my God.

-Thank you.

Where can I put the fries?

-Buffalo wings...

-How hard they?

-Not bad, try that.

'Well, we all shared meals that night'

'so typically, when we go out,

'we just pick a couple and have everybody eat.'

But if we're sharing a meal,

it's just too much food for just one of us to have our own plate.

We just share because it's way too much food.

So we just kind of pick what we both like to eat.

-Are you having trouble eating this?

-How did you only eat two?

-I had one!

First of all...

-First of all, there's two mouths to feed...

-I understand that!

-Second of all, both bones were in one wing.

-OK!

'There's still things that we're figuring out about each of them,

'just because there are so many things that they share

'and that they are so alike in.'

I don't know all the specifics.

They have two hearts, two sets of lungs, two stomachs,

and then I think everything like below the waist is just one,

like they have one reproductive system and Brit just

controls the left side and Abby controls the right side of the body.

-Would you guys let me take a picture?

-ALL: Yes, please!

-It might be a lot easier for me to do it than one of you.

-We would love that.

Act like you're friends!

When I first met them, I just thought,

"What is life like for them?"

Because it's hard to put myself in their shoes.

Now, they're just a couple of girls.

-Right, ladies, it's dessert time.

-Yeah!

-This is pretty!

-Thank you.

Hold on, this looks pretty.

I want to try these marshmallows. What have you got?

-Eat that. I don't want it.

-I don't want it.

'So we got some fondue,'

and there was marshmallows there and nobody ate the marshmallows,

-so then I decided to play Chubby Bunny...

-By ourselves!

I do kind of want to see this!

-You have to get them all in.

-One...

-Say it!

We've got one. We've got one. All right, come on.

OK, don't make them laugh, though!

Chubby Bunny is where you take marshmallows

and stick them in your mouth.

Every time you put a marshmallow in your mouth

you have to say Chubby Bunny.

You got it! You got it!

You have to see how far you can go.

No, you have a bigger mouth than that, you got to keep going!

THEY SHOUT AND LAUGH

ALL: Yuck!

-I wanted to take a picture.

-I'll try.

-One...

-One...

THEY SHOUT AND CHEER

We're bending the rules. Three...

All right, now somebody punch her cheeks real quick!

THEY LAUGH

Wait, I have a serious question -

how would you do the Heimlich if you were joking?

ALL: Trial and error! Trial and error!

Would I do the back slap?

-How many times do I choke?

-Brit does choke a lot.

-Yeah, you really do.

-There she goes!

-I know. But then, Do you know what interesting?

-What?

To stop myself, I sneeze.

ALL: To stop myself, I sneeze!

Today is Ab and Brit's 16th birthday.

Koty, you want to light the candles?

We're going to have their favourite angel food cake

baked by their grandmother.

And then we did a documentary when we turned 16.

This one was a little bit different, but just doing life, so...

10 things top that we've changed since we were 11.

10, we can drive.

Nine, we go to high school.

Eight, we're into photography.

Seven, we like a lot of different kinds of music.

Six, we like to go shopping a lot.

Five, we have a job.

-Four... we like to go on the internet.

-A lot.

Three, we like to talk on the phone.

Two, we're in a new school.

One, we talk a lot more.

We decided to do a series just cos it's fun and you can see

a normal day-to-day life of who we are and what we do.

Obviously, we've changed a lot in seven years,

so it's good to update - people still think we're 16.

BOTH: Um... And we're not.

It's just going to be a fun thing for everyone to be like, oh,

they do do normal things and they have great friends

and they're always doing something, and it's normal, what we do,

and that our life isn't any different than yours.

Erin's one of our good friends we met at college.

We've been friends with her since freshman year, actually.

She's super great.

She's just fun to be around, always have something fun to do.

-So, she decided to throw us a birthday party.

-22nd birthday party.

-Can I get a medium iced vanilla latte?

-Sure.

-Can I have a caramel iced latte?

-Sure, what size would you like?

-BOTH: Medium.

-Thank you.

-BOTH: You're welcome.

She does just wanted to meet up for coffee

and decide who we were going to invite and what we were going to do.

So, birthday party, here we go!

-We could have it at my house.

-OK.

-Who shall we invite?

-What?

-Your house, all your roommates...

-Your house.

-Our roommates.

-BOTH: Thank you.

-You're welcome.

'I met Abby and Brittany at the end of our freshman year.'

Now that we're at the end of college,

we've definitely shared a lot of memories over the last few years

and really got to know each other.

-And then what shall we eat?

-Ice cream?

-BOTH: Ice cream!

-Shall we have an ice cream bar?

-We could get a bunch of toppings.

BOTH: OK, perfect.

Like chocolate and caramel... OK, OK.

'Our group of friends, we do a lot of things out,

'we go to a lot of concerts, games shows,'

and it's amazing to me because everywhere they go,

they get the stares, they get the looks,

they get the remarks generally,

and I just don't know how they do that every day.

-Is it warm enough for a bonfire?

-Absolutely.

Bonfire! Sounds so great. That is so perfect!

'They always wanted to live like everyone else does

'and I think that's part of what's helped it to be so normal,

'is that there's no difference'

between them and any one of us.

They just do anything that anyone wants to do.

-Shall we all get decorations now so we don't have to do it next week?

-Yep.

-OK.

-Perfect.

'So we decided that it would be best to go to the party store right after coffee.'

BOTH: Oh, my gosh, caffeine affects us so much.

I have a super sensitive heart, so caffeine kicks it.

One time in the winter, I had three different things of caffeine

and I was literally...

-Hey, everybody, let's go!

-Just shaking.

-It doesn't affect Abby, though. Her heart doesn't get...

-Rapid at all.

I get energy, but my heart doesn't race.

All right, here we go. Those are fun.

'Erin had already set up a bunch of stuff at her house and got a bunch

'of different decorations'

and a pinata and stuff like that, so we decided

'to go and pick out some more streamers

'and a couple more balloons and some cups and bowls and stuff like that.'

-Shall we get blue and yellow streamers?

-Yeah.

-One or two?

-Maybe one of each.

-Yeah. What colour?

And we got helium balloons. And other balloons.

We got some cool swirly balloons. That was fun.

THEY LAUGH

These are great.

-Halloween?

-Yes.

'I feel like I have a very equal friendship and relationship'

with both Abby and Brittany, which I think is

really cool, because I've never felt like I'm closer to one or the other.

'I feel like I've really gotten to know both their personalities

'and I can tell when I'm talking to Abby versus when I'm talking

'to Brittany and who wants to do what.'

There we are.

-Oh, yeah.

-BOTH: Oh, good.

OK, so, we need...

'Our house loves to cook.'

-Or bake.

-Bake, yeah.

'But we knew that the party was going to be the next day.'

OK, here's the chocolate chips.

So Katy decided to make a whole bunch of stuff.

-Butter.

-Peanut butter.

-I have butter. I have butter at home.

-Do we have vanilla?

-I used it all up.

-Who's ready for a sugar high?

-OK, peanut butter.

-Guys, this isn't the peanut butter, either.

Where'd he go?

Peanut butter. Where's the peanut butter?

We're going to figure this.

We went to a different grocery store, which is why we were so lost.

That was just really crazy.

Where's the peanut butter?

-Around the corner by the bread section.

-Thanks!

'When I think about me and my sister, I'm like,'

"This would never work."

'It's funny, cos they're so different,

'but they can read each other's minds so well,'

that even with how different they are, they always end up

'saying the same thing.'

-BOTH: We have water.

-We do have water.

When you think about it, you can finish your best friend's

sentence and you're not around them your entire life, 24/7,

'so it makes sense that they can'

just do that so easily.

-Ready?

-Can we make white chocolate chunks?

They're a good team.

That's how I think of them. They really...

One thing I really admire about them

is that they are two different girls,

but yet they are able to work together,

to do the basic functions that I do every day, that I take for granted.

LAUGHTER

This is awesome, seriously.

Does he really? OK, you want the...

I've got the puppy chow.

BOTH: Puppy chow is so good.

It's rice cereal with...

BOTH: Peanut butter and chocolate chips.

And you melt those together and you mix them in.

When it starts to cool, you put powdered sugar on it.

-BOTH: It's so good.

-It's better when it's warm.

Drum roll, please!

DRUM ROLL

I've got the puppy chow.

I've got the cake.

What can my job be?

BOTH: Huh?

-What can my job be?

-We need to be on it.

Oh, this is where the magic happens.

'We're very coordinated,

'because we've learned together to be coordinated.'

-I control the right side.

-And I control the left side.

'Everything's just easy and natural for us.'

BOTH: That looks so good.

That's right.

Like this, Kayla?

Yeah, I don't think you want to use the whole stick!

-You're brilliant.

-I did a nice job.

You're just cleaning the toilets now. There is your host!

-BOTH: I washed stuff!

-OK.

-It was so...

-No.

BOTH: Mmm!

'When it comes to decisions,'

-we definitely compromise.

-Obviously, cos...

BOTH: We have to. ABBY: All the time.

But we definitely take turns on things...

What we want to do or work it out where each of us is happy.

And try to find a happy medium between things.

-You should hear them.

-Them fighting.

-It's so funny.

-I wake up sometimes in the morning, they're arguing.

-Shut up!

-KAYLA:

-'They're similar, but there's just so many differences.

It's kind of weird how different they are.

Abby is definitely more outspoken.

I have to go to coffee at 9am.

'Abby's a little bit more'

type A, Brit's the end task, goes to the end task.

Abby's the one that's winning the argument over what

they're doing or what they're wearing.

I want to say high maintenance.

BOTH: OK.

More like all ducks in a row, and Brit's more like,

"Let's go with the flow, whatever."

She has the finished product of the puppy chow. Admire, admire.

Abby is probably the more outgo...loud one, but

when it comes to doing stuff, she's a homebody, where I'd rather go out.

Brittany's bossy and super sassy and she's the quiet one

and nobody thinks that she's crazy, but she is.

You're just a great friend, OK?

You made me eat and you gave me eyeliner.

'Brit is just a lot more'

funny and weird.

Hi!

She always has a little bit of attitude, and she's funny,

because she's so cute and so small and she's just hilarious.

Her reactions to things are a lot more laid back and chilled.

Yeah, she doesn't say much until it needs to be said.

And then don't argue with her.

-Yeah, absolutely.

-Absolutely.

They know us pretty well.

Brittany always has a really warm heart, is how she describes it.

-"My heart is warm."

-Yeah...

You just love us. Oh, she's going to do it!

She's going to do it!

-Say it.

-How do you feel about us right now?

As we're all standing here together.

I'm loving you.

LAUGHTER

OK, grab a knife.

Want to frost this cake

for the party tonight?

It smells good.

-WOMAN:

-Are you guys excited about the party tonight?

Yeah! It's going to be a lot of fun.

It's going to be great to see all our friends.

-Friends is good, that's all we need.

-Friends is good, yeah.

If we describe a party, I'd say you need lots of people, lots of food.

-Loud.

-Lots of pictures.

-Music. BOTH: Pictures.

Clumps of people everywhere.

-Mass chaos.

-All the time.

-Yeah.

Do you want to sprinkle it?

-Do you want to sprinkle it?

-Go for it.

-OK.

-Hey, that looks great.

-Hey, thanks.

-Very even sprinkling.

-I did my best.

Well, there we have it. There's our cake.

BOTH: Here's our cake!

Happy birthday.

BOTH: Hello!

-FRIENDS:

-Hi!

-Happy birthday!

-BOTH: Thank you!

-Happy birthday!

-How's everybody?

Good!

BOTH: Good to see you. Good to see you.

The night of the party,

we decided to go early and help Erin put out food and decorations.

We'll just get everything ready and clean the house and stuff like that.

LAUGHTER

It's so fun.

Erin had a lot of stuff done already.

She had balloons and streamers and those little lantern things.

But we helped blow up balloons and get food ready.

Pizza's here!

Guys, pizza's here!

CHEERING

-Starving!

-So hungry right now.

Cheese or pepperoni?

Cheese or pepperoni?

So what do we have left to do?

Abby and Brittany, who gets chocolate and who gets vanilla?

-Abby can have chocolate and Brittany can have vanilla.

-OK.

There we are.

-Who can blow up the balloon the fastest?

-Ready?

Get a balloon.

-Hand tied or just blown up?

-You think we can tie it with two hands?

-I don't know.

-One hand?

These are hard balloons!

-Something's not going right here.

-I give up.

OK, maybe you should do streamers.

Blow, Brittany, what's wrong with you?

You have like a mini baseball.

Hard as you cam.

I can't do it!

Volleyball!

Overshot.

-Party!

-Got the food!

Wooo!

BOTH: Hello!

-Happy birthday!

-Happy birthday to you, too!

BOTH: It's your birthday! How are you?

-BOTH: So good to see you!

-Happy birthday!

-Thank you!

'We love birthdays in our friend group'

and so we wanted to celebrate them

and celebrate all the things that we

do for us on our birthdays too.

OK, I made this, so everyone...

-ALL:

-Oooh!

'So we just wanted to have some people over, have some fun

'and just celebrate the big'

22nd birthday.

BOTH: Hello! Hello!

'Yeah, Erin always has super big parties...'

So different friends from everywhere came.

BOTH: Hey, guys, how are you?

My favourite part is when I'm talking to them,

they'll finish each other's sentences.

-Exactly!

-It's actually unbelievable.

They both know what they're thinking and what they're going to say and

I think it's awesome and it makes me smile every time they do it.

-BOTH: I'm German.

-And French.

BOTH: And Polish. ABBY: And Canadian.

I made a lot of food and pizza.

And we had an ice cream bar that people could come

and get ice cream and then sprinkle different toppings on.

We had a dancing game that we wanted to play on the game system.

MUSIC: "Minnesota Is The New California" by The Sota Boys

-FRIEND:

-Wooo!

-That was...

-Quite fun.

-Weird.

MUSIC PLAYS

Nobody did it except me. BOTH: I made a fool of myself.

# Minnesota, Minnesota

# Minnesota is the new California. #

-FRIENDS:

-Wooo!

'Yeah, we have such a great group of friends.'

And so everybody kind of shows up to everybody's birthday parties.

-Just to like support them.

-We have a good group of friends.

LAUGHTER AND CHATTER

Woo-hoo!

LAUGHTER AND CHATTER

# Happy birthday, Abby and Brittany... #

Wooo!

'I really admire their relationship.'

'I think it's beautiful how they're really supportive of one

'another and maybe they don't have a choice,'

but I believe that they do.

They can choose their attitude towards life and how they face it,

'and they're the epitome of teamwork and love and respect.'

CHEERING

22! 22! 22! 22!

22! 22!

CHEERING

Wow! BOTH: Thank you! Thank you!

Let's go outside!

-Light a fire!

-BOTH: Light a fire!

LAUGHTER AND CHATTER

Trying to start a fire for Abby and Brit for their 22nd birthday.

Getting her started.

We're all here for Brit and Abby.

-Fanes is, King is.

-Ben is. Ben.

-Rick is too.

'Erin always has super big parties,

'so different friends from everywhere came.'

Chubby bunny.

Chubby bunny!

'Now it's senior year, a lot of us live off-campus

'and so everyone's kind of in their own house with'

-a group of girls.

-Or different guys.

'I'd say a lot of them came...

'The majority of all the houses came that we hang out with.'

The Bake Shop, the Ranch, the Hideaway.

Our house is the Shadow House.

-The Blue House.

-Yeah, we all have names.

BOTH: It's a college thing.

Math, teaching math. The kids are cute.

-The kids are cute?

-Yeah.

BOTH: I just love them! They're great.

-Do you like the same kids?

-Yeah.

'It's a great night outside. We had so much fun'

with our friends. They all did so much.

And they did a lot for us. It's great. The bonfire's good.

-22 doesn't feel any different.

-We're old.

-Yeah.

-Go to bed early.

-We go to bed. It's spring break, we go to bed by nine.

-No, it doesn't feel any different.

-It doesn't.

-You're old.

-Yeah.

Might as well get a cane.

-The party was so good. We had fun.

-So much fun.

-It was a good night.

Super success.

-OK.

-Bye.

-See you later.

-Love you. So much.

Bye. See you soon.

We're going to get graduation, moving out of our house,

our college house.

'There's so much uncertainty about where you're going to be

'after graduation. You don't know where you're going to live,

'or if you're going to get a job.

'It's also exciting, because you get a new chance for everything.'

-4th July?

-Yeah, what are you doing?

We're studying elementary education with a math emphasis.

We are graduating in May.

-Hello! How are you?

-Good, how are you?

-BOTH: Good.

'We aren't around campus much any more.'

We do 40 hours of student teaching a week

and then every Monday we have an hour's seminar.

-Oh, hey, friends.

-Hello.

Good afternoon, good evening.

-I know you've all been student teaching today, correct?

-Yes.

You've already had a long day and you were the teacher

and now you're sitting in class again, right?

How many of you have resumes?

Yeah, Emily!

So today I'm going to be talking about resumes,

a little bit about interviewing and networking.

It's very unlikely to get a job right out of college,

because the odds are like 600 to one teacher position.

BOTH: That's a little depressing.

But you have to try anyway, so we've got resumes and applications out for

a couple of different districts and just waiting to hear back from them.

-You throw it out there...

-Let it go.

The last thing I wanted to actually talk about is interviewing.

'So we're looking for jobs in the Metro area.

'The Twin Cities, which is where us

'and roommates are looking for a place to live'

and it's close to our family.

So that would be the most ideal.

If you build relationships,

or have a connection with someone, what is it?

12-15%? 35%?

Close, 60, 70, 80%.

'We do have an interview coming up in Texas over spring break,'

so that's an option as well.

APPLAUSE

-Bye, girls.

-BOTH: Bye-bye. ABBY: Ashley, I'll send you that.

-BOTH: Oh! I was looking for you!

-How are you?

-Guys! I got my gowns today. Shall we try them on?

-Yes!

-Did you get yours yet?

-No.

-Let's try them on.

After our resume class, it was super exciting,

cos we got to pick up our cap and gown.

It's significant that we're actually graduating.

-Oh, my gosh, we're graduating.

-You are.

-You are too, with me.

People ask questions at school,

about do they have one major or two.

They're getting two degrees,

but they're all attending, obviously,

the same classes and one major,

so they pay one and a half tuition.

# Da, da, da, da... #

Who has the big head?

-You know, I don't know.

-Abby.

We're actually dressing you right now. This is really exciting.

-Are you nervous?

-No, are you nervous?

-Yes.

-About graduating?

-I'm a tripper, if you know what I mean.

I was going to say that. That could be really good or really bad.

-Oh, my gosh, this is so exciting.

-I'm going to cry.

I feel like Mom. We're graduating!

You are the mom. We're graduating together.

Graduation's like super exciting.

But it's kind of bittersweet at the same time,

cos you want to move on. I want to be teaching

'and I don't want to be doing schoolwork any more.'

Get it on right!

'But at the same time, we don't want to leave the college life

'and being with friends, not worrying about...'

BOTH: Jobs and stuff like that.

-9am, this is going to be us, girls.

-Are we all in the same one?

-We're all in the same one!

-We graduate together?

-Yes!

'So it's super exciting, but at the same time,'

-my college is home...

-We've been here for four years,

so it'll be different. So it's definitely bittersweet.

-You guys are ready.

-Time to graduate!

I'm seriously going to cry. This is so sad.

BOTH: 2012! Woooo!

For spring break, we flew down to Houston, Texas...

To visit our friend Tamara and her family.

-Our roommate Kayla came with us...

-This time, so that was really fun.

And our Mom. We did some shopping.

That sounds great.

Thank you so much for that opportunity.

And we'll be sure to see you tomorrow. Bye-bye.

-You just secured your first job interview.

-BOTH: Woooo!

'And we also went down there'

cos we had job interviews at two of the schools that Tamara...

Works at. She's a lunch coordinator there.

-All right, it's time to dress for success.

-BOTH: All right!

Let's go see if we can find something to wear!

Oh, there's this one. I like that.

-That's you.

-That's me. That's fun.

-Do you guys like leggings?

-Yes, I love leggings.

-What about these?

We know Tamara because she had conjoined twins as well...

BOTH: About 16 years ago.

'Her babies passed away, but we still became really good friends.'

BOTH: Our mom and her are very close.

-Brittany always likes the hats.

-In a job interview?

I'm Patty, Abby and Brittany's mom.

What do you think, boys?

What do you think, boys?

'They can be the life of the party'

and they're not afraid to speak their mind,

'but they've both got very big hearts

'and they're very high achievers.'

-Do you like this one?

-Yeah.

I'm proud of them and everything that they do.

What do you think of that? You?

LAUGHTER

OK, I guess that means...

'Mom and Tammy'

have a way different style than us.

Look at this.

That would not look good on me.

-How about this?

-BOTH: No.

-OK. All right.

They're older and we're working with Mom to get more of her own style,

so they pick out stuff that we would not like at all.

Don't like anything like this?

Or just a polka dot skirt with a little cardigan?

-KAYLA:

-It's more you, Tamara.

That would look good on you.

-Oh, my gosh.

-Yes, Mom.

-No, thank you.

-You've got a nice little selection in there.

Yeah, we're doing all right.

Are you ready to try on?

Yes, no?

Baggy.

Baggy, a lot going on.

-I like the colours, though.

-Next!

-I like that cardigan. Do you?

-That looks really good.

I like that's a lot.

My job when we go shopping is I'm the size getter.

-We need the next size bigger in that jacket.

-OK.

'Get the things back on the hanger,'

pick up the dressing room.

That's cute. Or don't you like it?

-No.

-All right.

-Do you like the top?

-No.

-OK, that's OK.

-I don't really know what's going on.

-There's a lot going on there.

I don't even think Abby likes to shop that much.

Abby does more than Brittany.

-Really?

-'Kayla's way wrong.'

I definitely like shopping a lot more.

And I would rather not spend money, cos money's tight.

-TAMARA:

-I like that.

-KAYLA:

-You hear them bickering in the bathroom, "We're wearing this!" "No! We're wearing that!"

"No, we wore something like that yesterday!"

Definitely if they need a tiebreaker,

that's when they reach out for more opinions on what they should do.

But Ab and Brit are very independent.

-TAMARA:

-You like these?

Yeah!

-How about these?

-No.

-And what about these?

-Yeah, those are cute.

-OK, yeah, I like that.

-OK!

We found some cute shirts and stuff like that and a couple of earrings

and we found a cute cardigan that we can wear for teaching.

Nothing really for the interview,

but just some nice dressier clothes that...

It's always nice to have.

We want to take this and this and this.

-Let's go.

-And this.

Call it a day.

-Call it a day.

-BOTH: Let's call it a day.

It is like ten o'clock.

-WOMAN:

-Makes me feel good that you found something.

-I love it.

You are young and starting off like that. Everybody says, "That's an old shop."

-We're not old, we're just very...

-You are stylish.

-Thank you.

Thank you.

Next stop.

LAUGHTER

-Bye!

-Bye, girls!

I think it's almost like... Their nails at 12.30?

That is cute.

-That is really cute too.

-WOMAN:

-There you go.

-Thanks.

Keep it white.

'We definitely have different styles.'

Brittany's a lot more neutrals and pearls and stuff like that.

And I would rather have it be more fun and bright and colourful.

-KAYLA:

-Those are cute, you guys.

-Will I stomp around like a boy?

-That's OK.

All right, girls, let's see you model them for Kayla over there.

Cute!

Hold on to this dress with it. See if you guys like that.

Oh, my God!

-I like them.

-They're way too small.

-They're so cute!

-That's cute!

They show your calf muscles nice.

-I know, I was going to...

-They're a little small.

I'll just go try on my dresses and then call it a day.

-That is the phrase of the day.

-Call it a day.

It's kind of funny when they fight, they just kind of bicker,

they're not super loud about it.

-Look at you.

-I don't love this.

-You don't?

I love this, I think.

I think it needs to be shorter.

-I don't think I like this.

-Yeah.

-Let me see, girls.

-No.

-KAYLA:

-'They've always loved getting advice

'from their friends and family.

'Even if Abby would say,'

"I don't want to go out, Brit wants to, what do we do?"

We're like, "What did you do last night?"

They're like, "We went out." "Then you're staying home."

-Nice work today.

-Nice work, yeah.

Don't you dare high-five me.

LAUGHTER

-Are you not going to high-five her?

-She never high-fives.

-How about the knuckles?

-She doesn't do that, either.

What are we, 12?

-I know, I know.

-It was actually really good...

We went shopping and then we decided to go and get manicures

and pedicures to prepare for our Texas interview.

This is Andrea. She's going to be doing one of the manicures.

-Hi, nice to meet you!

-Do you want to pick out the colour?

We've got all the colours right behind you.

-Here's some colours.

-Do we pick out...

-What about this, Brittany?

-Do you like this colour better?

-I want this one for me.

Which one's for your toes?

-My toes...

-Toenails.

-We have this one at home.

-OK.

I like that.

-This one on my toes.

-It's fun.

-Is that fun?

-Or shall we do a brown?

-Not a brown. It's summertime.

-Right?

-Well, it's spring.

-It's spring.

Not too often.

-Brittany hates...

-I hate getting my nails done. I just hate it.

So it was a compromise thing, cos Brittany doesn't like it

and I do, and Kayla does.

-Kayla does too, so we did it.

-We did it.

-It's drier in the sun. Don't miss that.

-Perfect.

'I do like the end result,

'I just don't like the process of getting my nails done.'

-We don't mind doing our nails.

-I don't mind doing my nails ourselves.

But I just would rather not go somewhere and get them done.

Kind of my own space kind of person.

I don't like to be touched all that much.

LAUGHTER

I can't believe she's doing that.

Patty just wanted to see how this colour might look on her feet,

so I thought that I would be more than, you know, obliged to help out.

Abby, Brittany, what do you think?

-That's great.

-Do you like it?

It looks good.

I feel like I've been pampered too.

LAUGHTER

WOMAN: You OK? BOTH: Yeah, great, thank you.

-Are you ticklish?

-A little bit.

Are you ready?

Don't think about it, don't think about it.

Kayla, how's life?

It's pretty great, thanks.

'Both of us are ticklish,'

but I only feel my side, so Brittany

doesn't get tickled when they're doing that crazy thing to my foot.

So vice versa for me.

-Now we're ready to go lay out.

-Yeah, come on.

OK.

-Oh, my gosh! I'm on!

-Ready?

-I don't know!

'We wanted to go on a bike ride

'and Tamara told she had this two-seater bike that we should try.'

-It was super fun, but it takes a lot of...

-Coordination.

..coordination between the front person and the back person.

-Go, go!

-Aargh!

Feel it?

Hold on.

-What are we doing?

-It's all in the core.

I'm actually impressed.

-Thank you. I told you you could trust me a long time ago.

-I'm sorry.

-BOTH: You chose not to.

-Kind of took control.

Easy does it. Easy does it.

We're doing so well. Slow down.

-How do we slow down?

-Drag your feet!

'The bike was a little run down.'

Didn't have any brakes, so you had to drop your feet and drag,

but we loved it, it was super funny.

Way to get some exercise.

-Hey, great.

-Good job.

-Wow!

Tamara has a 14-year-old daughter named Victoria.

OK, hold on.

No, we're going to tip!

'Victoria got to come home a little bit early.'

-Kayla and us were on our regular...

-Bike ride.

-Bike ride.

So she wanted to come with us... BOTH: So we let her have a turn.

-OK, ready?

-Set.

-Go!

I started on a different foot than you.

Go, go! Aargh!

Yes, yes! Yes!

-BOTH: Go slow, go slow!

-OK.

-Good work. BOTH: Feel it. Feel it.

-I don't like this.

-Go slow.

-She did really well.

-She did really well.

-It's weird, I can't control at all.

-I know, it's really weird.

'The back person on the bike literally has no control over

'anything except for pedalling,'

-which that's...

-A little bit scary in itself and I feel like

you're more the person that's the balance...

-On the bike.

-..in the back.

The front person has to kind of tell the back person what way

you'll turn, because if one leans to the left

and one leans to the right, it's a disaster.

We're just going to turn.

You're doing good. You're doing good.

You're doing good!

BOTH: You're doing good! We did it! Wooo!

And always starting is super hard,

because you can't get the right timing and stuff like that.

But we managed it, we did great.

Next, we'll do a proper wheelie.

-Oh, gosh!

-BOTH: Yeah!

Drag your feet, drag your feet!

We're going to walk it back up. Ready?

-Got you.

-All right.

-Woo-hoo!

-Five.

That's what we're going to do.

Oh, God.

But we're going to spend long hours here

just to get the last beam, right?

-The last beam.

-The last beam.

-Wave.

'The number one priority, obviously,'

for the Texas trip was the sun.

-BOTH: Everybody goes on spring break to get tanned.

-But it was cloudy.

'We just thought maybe we could give it a shot.'

Shall we call it quits, ladies?

LAUGHTER

-A couple of minutes.

-Success.

It was kind of cloudy and too cold, so that was a waste of our time.

But it was still funny.

The tan lines are brewing, I can feel it.

Just like a roast in the oven.

LAUGHTER

-Where do you come up with this stuff?

-BOTH: I don't know!

-I think we should call it quits and pretend we're not idiots.

-OK.

All right, one, two, three.

Come on, Kayla, get up!

-I can't. I'm still really cold.

-Can I have one? I'm really cold.

My hair's wet.

We try hard.

OK, what do you have?

I'm going to show you some of my old archives, OK?

And please, feel free that if you want to use anything

-out of my files, know that they are for you to use.

-OK.

'Tammy used to be a teacher, so she wanted us to look through her stuff,'

see if we could get some ideas.

This is one lesson I made for my fifth graders one time.

-I was teaching them addition facts.

-Addition in fifth grade?

Triple digits. Not just single digits.

Now, did you ever had do anything like this?

They've been reading algebra at fifth grade now.

You do algebra in fifth grade now? Oh, no, no.

See, they'd have to go through that

and then on the back would be the answer.

That's pretty cool, though.

Tamara hasn't been a teacher for a long time.

And so all of the stuff was super dated.

'And like things that she said'

a fourth grader would use, a second grader would now use.

Put the little tag in it.

See if you guys can spin it.

What do you call them?

-Fish facts.

-Oh!

-Fish math facts.

'It's fun to look through her old boxes of lesson plans

'and different props that she used'

and activities she did with her students.

It was super old. Really old.

You guys are going to have a lot of fun with your students.

Your students are going to be very lucky to have you as their teacher.

So we'll have the interview tomorrow, right?

-I actually got you guys two interviews.

-OK, cool.

-All right, they are both looking for elementary teachers.

-OK.

I'm not sure what grade level yet, but they do have openings in

both of their schools and tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 you're going

to meet with the two principals from each of their schools.

That sounds good.

-What's the job opportunities up there in Minnesota?

-Not much.

No, there's no jobs right now.

-Would you really, in your heart, consider moving down here?

-Mm-hmm.

-Think you could handle the heat?

-Yes. I'll just sit in the sun.

-You'll sunbathe after you get out of school.

-Every day.

-Every day.

Just know that whatever you do in life, as long as you're happy, it won't even seem like work.

Perfect.

Lead the way. You own the place.

'One of the things we do in Texas all the time

'is go to Tamara's restaurant.'

-She owns an Italian restaurant...

-Called Mario's Flying Pizza.

-It's so good.

-It's so good.

You all ready to start learning how to make pizza?

All right, put your purse down.

You can put it in one of the booths.

She always lets us make pizzas and fly our own pizzas.

Which is really fun. It's a lot harder than it looks.

-WOMAN:

-Put your flour on your dough.

-Both sides?

-KAYLA:

-Why am I so nervous?

-At least our nails are good for...

-Yeah, I have bomb nails.

-WOMAN:

-OK, keep stretching it and pulling it.

One, two, three.

-Hey, that's good.

-Yay, girl!

Kayla had never done it before, so this was quite new for her

and she was super excited about it.

'We've done it a lot.

'We're not good at it, but we've done it a lot.'

All right, you're going to stretch it out.

We put holes in our pizza dough and it hit the ceiling

and it's never even.

-Give them another piece.

-They need a new piece.

All right, get some more dough.

-But...

-Put stuff on it.

-It still tastes good.

What toppings?

Pineapple, hamburger.

Reach in there and grab you some pineapple.

-With my hands?

-Yeah.

'Brittany likes more meat-type things.'

And Abby doesn't, so we just did half and half.

-I like ground beef.

-Perfect.

After we got done making pizzas, we got to bake them and eat them.

-'That was really fun.'

-'It was really good too.'

This is great. It's delicious.

'But we had to call it kind of an early night,

'cos we had our interviews the next morning, so we needed to'

get home and put together our stuff and our resumes and...

Prepare for that.

I heard you were saying I had all sorts of stories about her.

It was the morning of our first teaching job interview.

'The odds of getting a job right out of college are like 600 to one.'

But you have to try anyway.

-Houston, Galveston.

-That's Galveston, Houston.

Galveston is first.

'We were interviewing with two principals for two different schools'

at the same time, which isn't typical,

but one of the principals had a really busy schedule and she really

wanted to get a chance to interview us and so

-both principals...

-Met together and did a joint interview.

All right, Mom, we're ready!

-Good luck, girls.

-Thank you.

-Thanks, Mom.

Oh, my gosh, stop.

-Give me a call when you're done.

-Get off me.

PATTY LAUGHS

My mom had to leave early from the trip

because she had to work the next day,

so on our way to the interview, Mom left for the airport.

Feeling fine about the interview.

DOG BARKS

-Not nervous?

-BOTH: Not nervous.

Betsy's nervous.

All right, we should get going, then. You have to be there at 3.30.

Shall we get the car keys

-and get ready to head off to the interview?

-Yeah!

-Adios.

-OK, bye.

-Bye, Kayla!

-Bye!

-Have a great day!

-See you soon!

-Bye, honey!

Oh, my gosh.

'Since it was our first interview,

'we felt like we wanted to put our best foot forward'

and not be nervous about other things

-like the cameras and so we...

-Just went in by ourselves.

Obviously, right away, we understood that we're going to get one

salary, because we're doing the job of one person.

As maybe experience comes in,

we'd like to maybe negotiate a little bit,

considering we have two degrees and because we are able to give

two different perspectives or teach in two different ways.

One can be teaching and one can be monitoring

and answering questions like that,

so in that sense, we can do more than one person.

So, obviously, right away, we'd get one salary and that's only fair,

because we're newbies.

If they got offered the Houston job, I think

Abby would want to stay more at home

and Brit would be more willing to come to Houston and move.

I'm a homebody and I like to be home.

And stuff like that. But I could go.

-I wouldn't have a problem going.

-It would be super exciting.

I definitely think they'd have to take more time to make

a decision, especially if they're going to move or are taking

the job, because obviously they both need to be happy

and I think Abby would love working down here,

she'd need to get more used to the idea.

-Hello.

-BOTH: Hi!

-How did it go?

-BOTH: Good!

-Really? Are you excited?

-BOTH: Yeah.

You look excited.

'The interview went really well.

'They asked us questions like classroom management...'

BOTH: Behaviour management...

ABBY: What method you use for teaching.

How you set up a lesson.

Every time I gave an answer, one principal was like,

"That's exactly what I want to hear. That was an excellent answer."

They wanted to know a lot about their availability and everything.

-KAYLA:

-That's so good.

They just kept saying like, "I have no problem hiring you.

"You're the person I'd call back."

-What a great day.

-Yeah!

It would be a good opportunity if we got the job.

If we didn't, then it was the right thing.

So that's a big option. It could be definitely a big change.

-But it's an adventure, so...

-BOTH: We'll see.

PHONE RINGS

-'Hello?'

-BOTH: Hi, Mom.

-'Hi, girls, how did it go?'

-Good.

They're wondering when I can come back for a second interview.

'I'll fly down with you.'

Yeah, you'll fly down with us.

Right now is just a big experience of every college student's life.

No longer do you go to school in August.

But you have a job and you don't know where you're going to be.

'You can basically move anywhere and start your life over again.'

-It's super exciting.

-It's an exciting time.

But it's just super nerve-racking also.

BOTH: Bye, Momma. Love you.

'Talk to you later. Love you too. Bye-bye.'

Bye-bye. Cheerio.

-KAYLA:

-I guess we could high-five.

-Just for you.

-Double high-five.

-Oh, boy.

-Yes!

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